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Dec 14, 2008 2:48 pm US/Central

Senate Campaigns Vow To Cut Challenged Ballots

ST. PAUL (AP) ― The two campaigns in Minnesota's Senate race have vowed to withdraw even more of the ballots they're challengin in the state recount.
  
Democrat Al Franken's campaign announced Sunday that it expects the number of Franken-challenged ballots to drop below 500 by Tuesday. And Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's campaign announced later Sunday that it would ask the state Canvassing Board to review fewer than 1,000 ballots.
  
The board on Tuesday will start considering ballots challenged by campaign volunteers.
  
The board has said it hopes to finish its review of challenged ballots by Friday. Before Sunday's announcements by the campaigns, the board faced the task of reviewing more than 3,400 challenged ballots.
  
The Franken and Coleman campaigns had challenged a combined 6,600 ballots during the course of the recount, but many of those have been withdrawn over the past couple of weeks.

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